List of filming locations in the Vancouver area

Vancouver, British Columbia has a large film and television production industry, which earned it the nickname "Hollywood North." It usually serves as a substitute location for other cities and locales. This is a list, arranged by region, of films and television series shot in the Lower Mainland, including several prominent filming locations in Greater Vancouver and the Fraser Valley, plus those in the adjoining Sea-to-Sky Corridor and Sunshine Coast regions.

Village of Anmore

Buntzen Lake

  • The 4400 (TV series)
  • Dark Angel (TV series)
  • Freddy vs. Jason
  • Hot Rod
  • It
  • Lake Placid (1999)[1]
  • Pathfinder
  • Smallville (TV series)
  • Supernatural (TV series)
  • The X-Files (TV series)

Bowen Island Municipality

  • American Gothic
  • Charlie St. Cloud
  • Double Jeopardy
  • The Fog
  • Harper's Island
  • The Russia House
  • The Wicker Man
  • Fear

City of Burnaby

Simon Fraser University in Burnaby

The Bridge Studios

See The Bridge Studios article for full listing.[3]

BB Studios (Beresford Street Studios)

  • Arrow (TV series)
  • The Flash (TV series)
  • Smallville (TV series)

7530 Buller Avenue, Burnaby, BC

  • Smallville (TV series)
  • Arrow (TV series)
  • Batwoman (TV series)

First Avenue Studio

  • Married Life
  • Supernatural

Burnaby City Hall

Burnaby Hospital

  • The Invisible
  • Riverdale (TV series)

Central Park

Kent Hangar

  • Elysium
  • Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
  • Tomorrowland

National Nikkei Heritage Centre

Extras outside the National Nikkei Heritage Centre during a break in filming Psych

City of Chilliwack and area

City Centre (Downtown)

City of Coquitlam

Coquitlam skyline
  • Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem

Centennial Secondary School

  • Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem
  • American Pie Presents: Book of Love
  • Psych

Coquitlam City Hall

  • Christmas Bounty
  • Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever
  • Juno
  • The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Dawes Hill

  • Hot Rod
  • Deck the Halls

Riverview Hospital

Quarry

United Boulevard (Fraser Riverbank)

  • Arrow (TV series)

Various Locations

  • The Day The Earth Stood Still

Corporation of Delta

  • Fantastic Four
  • I, Robot
  • Paycheck

District of Hope

"Stick Up"

Langley City

Township of Langley

  • Air Bud: Spikes Back
  • Alice, I Think (TV series) (filmed in South Langley near Campbell Valley)
  • Are We There Yet?
  • The Fog
  • Gunless
  • Home for Christmas
  • Hope Springs
  • Once Upon a Time (TV series)
  • Riverworld
  • Supernatural (TV series)
  • Taken (TV series)
  • The Vampire Diaries (TV series)
  • Riverdale (TV series)
  • Slither
  • Jingle All The Way 2

Village of Lions Bay and area

City of Maple Ridge

Thornhill/Whonnock

  • Supernatural (TV series)

District of Mission

  • Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
  • Horns
  • Twilight: New Moon
  • We're No Angels

Stave Falls Powerhouse (interior)

  • Stargate: Atlantis
  • Stargate: SG1

Unknown / various

6th Street / Royal City Centre Mall

  • Carpool

3rd Street

  • Bird on a Wire

Front Street / Downtown

  • Blade
  • Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
  • I Love You, Beth Cooper
  • I, Robot
  • The Killing[6]
  • New Moon
  • Shooter
  • Short Time
  • This Means War

Holy Trinity Cathedral

  • Deck the Halls

The Metro Hall

  • Supernatural

Paramount Theatre

  • It
  • New Moon
  • Married Life
  • Miracle

Old Terminal Pub

Samson V

Woodlands

City of North Vancouver

Lonsdale Quay in North Vancouver City

Boulevard Park

North Shore Auto Mall sign

North Shore Park / North Shore Auto Mall

Pier 97

  • Fantastic Four

Neptune Terminals

Burrard Dry Dock Pier

  • Fringe (TV series)

District of North Vancouver (North Shore)

Cleveland Dam in North Vancouver District

Back woods The 100 (TV show)

Cates Park

  • Killer Instinct
  • Double Jeopardy
  • American Pie Presents: Book of Love
  • The X-Files (TV series)
  • "Supernatural" (TV series)
  • Once Upon a Time (TV series)
  • Jumanji
  • Lost in Space (2018 TV series)
  • X-Men: The Last Stand
  • Zoo (TV series)
  • Bates Motel (TV series)
  • Charlie St. Cloud
  • Supernatural

See Pemberton for details.

Commercials:

  • 2013 - Subaru film shoot[8]
  • 2012 - Procter & Gamble Olympic commercial[8]
  • 2011 - Kia car commercial[8]
  • 2004 - Mountain Dew commercial filmed at Pemberton Airport[8]
  • 2003 - Smart Set Clothing Co. fashion photo shoot at One Mile Lake[8]
  • 2003 - Hyundai car commercial filmed at Pemberton Airport[8]
  • 2002 - Chevy truck commercial filmed at One Mile Lake[8]

City of Pitt Meadows

Swan-e-set Golf Course and Resort:

City of Richmond

Vancouver International Airport in Richmond
  • Cousins
  • Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge
  • Highlander: The Series
  • Killer Instinct
  • Postal
  • Stargate: Atlantis
  • Stargate SG-1
  • Supernatural

Gateway Theatre

  • Smallville

Sand Dunes

Richmond Centre

RCMP Richmond Main Detachment Building

  • Josie and the Pussycats

TV series:

  • Andromeda (2000–2005)
  • Arctic Air (2014)
  • Bates Motel (2015)
  • Blade (2006)
  • Continuum (2012)
  • The Flash (2016)
  • Great Canadian Books (2010)
  • Green Arrow
  • The Guard (2008)
  • The Highlander
  • MacGyver (1985)
  • Men in Trees (2006)
  • Midnight Sun (2014)
  • Motive (2014)
  • Restless Josie (2011)
  • The Returned (2015)
  • Rick Mercer Report
  • Search and Rescue (2008)
  • The Sentinel
  • Supernatural (2016)
  • Timeless (2016)
  • The X-Files (1993)
  • The Good Doctor (2017)

Commercials:

  • Canadian Tire
  • Delta Airlines
  • Ford
  • Kellogg's
  • Land Rover
  • Ralph Lauren
  • Snickers
  • Tim Hortons
  • Scotiabank

Feature films:

  • The 12 Disasters of Christmas (2012 TV movie)
  • 3000 Miles to Graceland (2001)
  • A Fool and His Honey (2017)
  • Backcountry (2014)
  • Behemoth (2011 TV movie)
  • Best. Trip. Ever. (2010 TV movie)
  • Beyond Gravity (2000)
  • Big Nothing (2006)
  • The Big Year (2011)
  • Bloodsuckers (2005 TV movie)
  • Chaos Theory (2008)
  • Coming Home for Christmas (2013 video)
  • A Dangerous Man (2009 video)
  • Dark Island (2010)
  • Darkly Machiever (1997 short film)
  • Deadly Pursuit (1988)
  • Double Jeopardy (1999)
  • Earth's Final Hours (2011 TV movie)
  • Embrace of the Vampire (2013 video)
  • End of the World (2013 TV movie)
  • Far Cry (2008)
  • Final Ascent (2000 TV movie)
  • Final Destination (2000)
  • Firestorm (1998)
  • The Fourth Kind (2009)
  • Free Willy 3: The Rescue (1997)
  • Goodbye (2012 short film)
  • Happy Face Killer (2014 TV movie)
  • The Haze (2012 short film)
  • Hike (2010 short film)
  • Horns (2013)
  • Ice Road Terror (2011 TV movie)
  • In the Shadow of the Chief (2003 documentary)
  • Insomnia (2002)
  • The Interview (2015)
  • Into the Forest
  • Kevin of the North (2001)
  • Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep (2006 TV movie)
  • Life Is Calling My Name (2008 documentary)
  • Little Black Caddy (2005 short film)
  • Lone Hero (2002)
  • Lunch with Charles (2001)
  • Marijuana PSA (2015 short film)
  • The Marine 4: Moving Target (2015 video)
  • McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
  • MVP: Most Valuable Primate (2000)
  • No Clue (2013)
  • Pathfinder (2007)
  • Peacemakers (1997)
  • The Revenant (2015)
  • Revisiting "Suddenly" (2013 documentary)
  • The Rise of Enduro (2014 documentary)
  • Say It Isn't So (2001)
  • Star Trek Beyond (2015)
  • Suddenly (2013)
  • Thrown (2002 short film)
  • The Tree That Saved Christmas (2014 TV movie)
  • The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011)
  • Walking Tall (2004)
  • Way of the Wicked (2014)
  • What It Takes: A Documentary About 4 World Class Triathletes' Quest for Greatness (2006 documentary)
  • White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf (1994)
  • Wild Guys (2004)
  • The Woods (2013)
  • Zolar (2004 TV movie)

City of Surrey

Cloverdale's welcome sign: "Home of Smallville!"
  • The 4400 (TV series)
  • Bionic Woman (TV series)
  • Deck The Halls
  • Fire With Fire
  • Hot Rod
  • Postal
  • Smallville (TV series)
  • The Evidence (TV series)
  • Saved!
  • The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers (TV series)
  • Chaos

Softball City

  • Juno
  • Deck the Halls
  • Human Target (TV series)
  • The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn

City of Vancouver

Unknown / various

2404 Guelph Street

  • Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (TV series) (Season 1)

2400 Motel on Kingsway

  • Highlander: The Series
  • Fantastic Four
  • Free Willy 3: The Rescue

Canada Post: Downtown office

  • 10.5
  • Caprica
  • Highlander: The Series
  • Cousins
  • Falling Skies
  • Fringe (TV series)
  • Killer Instinct
  • The Killing (TV series)
  • Rumble in the Bronx
  • Supernatural (TV series)
  • They Wait
  • Unforgettable
  • The X-Files (TV series)
  • X-Men: The Last Stand
  • Always Be My Maybe (2019 film)
  • Deadpool

David Thompson Secondary School

Government of Canada Building

  • Air Bud
  • Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
  • Josie and the Pussycats
  • Little Man
  • Jinxed (house collapse scene)
  • Once Upon a Time
  • Life-Size
  • Personal Effects
  • Things We Lost in the Fire

Kitsilano Secondary School:

Mary's on Davie West End, Vancouver

  • Main Event (Netflix Movie)
  • Career Opportunities in Murder and Mayhem (TV Series)
The Marine Building, better known as the Daily Planet offices in Smallville

Mountain View Cemetery

  • Fringe (TV series)
  • Highlander: The Series
  • The Killing (TV series)
  • Martian Child

The Orpheum Theatre

Queen Elizabeth Park

Ridge Theatre interior and Ridge Bowling Alley interior (now demolished)

  • Out of the Blue
  • New Moon
  • Supernatural

Rogers Arena (formerly General Motors Place)

  • Supernatural
  • Dark Angel
  • Supernatural

St. George's School

  • Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Vancouver Technical Secondary School

Viking Hall

  • Out Of The Blue

Waterfront Station

Filming signs for The 4400, near the Rose Garden Parkade at UBC
Wind Chill filming on the UBC campus on Main Mall at Agricultural Road
The Chan Centre at UBC standing in for The 4400 Center, during filming for The 4400

University Marketplace

District of West Vancouver

Park Royal Shopping Centre

Panorama Studios

  • MTV's Peak Season
  • Ski School (1990)[12]
  • Ski School (1994)[13]
  • The X-Files: I Want to Believe

City of White Rock

See also

References

  • Titles with locations including British Columbia, Canada from The Internet Movie Database
  1. ^ "Lake Placid (1999)". Yahoo Movies.
  2. ^ IMDB.com locations listing
  3. ^ Most Popular Titles With Location Matching "The Bridge Studios, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada"
  4. ^ a b Life Unexpected
  5. ^ "Battle of the Bulbs". IMDb.
  6. ^ a b The Killing
  7. ^ "21 Jump Street" (1987)
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Filming in the Village of Pemberton". Archived from the original on 2014-09-29. Retrieved 2016-01-10.
  9. ^ a b "Buy Generic Neurontin No Prescription - Gabapentin for Sale Online".
  10. ^ "The Grey Fox (1982) - IMDb". IMDb.
  11. ^ "Downhill Willie (1996) - IMDb". IMDb.
  12. ^ Ski School (1990)
  13. ^ Ski School (1994)
  • British Columbia Film Commission
  • Smallville filming locations
  • Landmarks and locations used during the filming of Stargate SG-1
  • Robert Altman's Vancouver
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